A famous lecture given in 1982 by computer science pioneer Grace Hopper, “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People”, has long been publicly unavailable but is now on YouTube.
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This was posted in response to a FOIA request made several years ago, and the NSA got help from the national archives to digitize it.
Some details at https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2024/aug/26/with-a-little-help-from-the-national-archives-nsa-finally-releases-grace-hopper-lecture-watch-it-here/
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